男子丢失加密钱包密码后找回 300 万美元比特币

一名男子丢失了其加密钱包的密码，其中包含价值 300 万美元的比特币，在两名研究人员的帮助下，他能够恢复全部金额

A man who lost the password to his crypto wallet, which contained Bitcoins now worth $3 million, was able to recover the full amount thanks to the help of two researchers, according to a report by Wired.

据《连线》报道，一名男子丢失了自己的加密钱包密码，该钱包内有价值 300 万美元的比特币，在两名研究人员的帮助下，他能够恢复全部金额。

The man, known only as Michael, told Wired that he stored 43.6 Bitcoins in a password-protected digital wallet, secured with a password generated using the RoboForm password manager. He then stored that password in a file encrypted with a tool called TrueCrypt, choosing not to store it with RoboForm due to security concerns.

这名名叫迈克尔的男子告诉《连线》杂志，他在一个受密码保护的数字钱包中存储了 43.6 个比特币，并使用 RoboForm 密码管理器生成的密码进行保护。然后，他将该密码存储在一个使用 TrueCrypt 工具加密的文件中，但出于安全考虑，他选择不使用 RoboForm 存储该密码。

However, the file got corrupted and Michael lost access to the crypto, and in the hopes of getting it back, he contacted hacker and researcher Joe Grand in 2022 who previously helped people recover their lost crypto.

然而，该文件已损坏，Michael 失去了对加密货币的访问权限，为了找回它，他于 2022 年联系了黑客兼研究员 Joe Grand，后者曾帮助人们找回丢失的加密货币。

Grand tapped a friend named Bruno to assist with cracking RoboForm’s software. They spent months reverse-engineering the version of the RoboForm program that Michael had used in 2013 and discovered that the random number generator used to generate passwords in that version had a flaw.

Grand 聘请了一位名叫 Bruno 的朋友协助破解 RoboForm 的软件。他们花了几个月的时间对 Michael 在 2013 年使用的 RoboForm 程序版本进行逆向工程，发现该版本中用于生成密码的随机数生成器存在缺陷。

The random passwords it generated were tied to the date and time on the user’s computer, making them predictable. If you knew the date, time, and other parameters, you could predict any password that would have been generated at a specific date and time in the past. However, Michael didn’t remember exactly when he had created his password.

它生成的随机密码与用户计算机上的日期和时间相关，使它们可预测。如果您知道日期、时间和其他参数，则可以预测在过去的特定日期和时间生成的任何密码。然而，迈克尔不记得他何时创建了密码。

The researchers were, however, able to find out that he moved Bitcoin into his wallet on April 13, 2013. By testing specific time parameters, they tested numerous passwords until they found the correct one – a password created on May 15, 2013.

然而，研究人员发现他于 2013 年 4 月 13 日将比特币转移到钱包中。通过测试特定的时间参数，他们测试了许多密码，直到找到正确的密码 - 2013 年 5 月 15 日创建的密码。

Grand and Bruno took a percentage of the Bitcoins, worth $38,000 per coin, and gave Michael the password to access the rest. He waited until the price rose to $62,000 per coin, sold some of them, and now has 30 Bitcoins left, worth $3 million.

Grand 和 Bruno 拿走了一部分比特币，每枚价值 38,000 美元，并向 Michael 提供了访问其余比特币的密码。他等到价格上涨到每枚比特币 62,000 美元时，卖掉了其中一些，现在还剩下 30 个比特币，价值 300 万美元。